48. Women and Vases

For the title of this post, I've had difficult time translating a very simple word from Russian: "кувшин" ("koovshin"). The closest translations are a  "pitcher" and a "jar," but when I wanted to choose the one that is more appropriate for this post and googled "images" for each, for the most part I saw baseball pitchers and those standard containers used to preserve food. What I was looking for is beauty and elegance, because that's what the post is about. So I chose "vases", although it is definitely not what Victor meant when he named his drawings  "A woman and  a ... (jar???)."

Just this week Victor drew two of them with the same title. Why? We talked about ceramics again, how I wish I would continue doing it. Clearly, even though it has been awhile since I took my ceramics course, the topic is not exhausted. So these are the two new drawings:

 

 

After receiving the two of them, I remembered I'd seen similar ones before. For example, when I just started taking ceramics, Victor sent me this one. I've already published it in one of my ceramics-related posts, and even explained its title (see post 23).

"A Goddess Firing Pots"

"Богиня Обжигающая Горшки"

After seeing all these women with all these jars/pitchers/vases, I asked: Why so many? Victor responded that he loves to draw women with vases, because, number one, their shapes  are very similar, and number two, both are sexy. And then I remembered one more that he drew about a year ago, this one was actually called "A Vase." I guess, he is right in his comparison.